“I am to be read not from left to right, but in Jewish: from right to left”: The Poetics of Boris Slutsky (Borderlines: Russian and East European-Jewish Studies) - Hardcover

Grinberg, Marat

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1934843733 ISBN 13: 9781934843734

Publisher: Academic Studies Press, 2011

Synopsis

Boris Slutsky (1919-1986) is a major original figure of Russian poetry of the second half of the twentieth century, whose oeuvre has remained unexplored and unstudied. The first scholarly study of the poet, Marat Grinberg’s book substantially fills this critical lacuna in the current comprehension of Russian and Soviet literatures. Grinberg argues that Slutsky’s body of work amounts to a Holy Writ of his times, which daringly fuses biblical prooftexts and stylistics with the language of late Russian Modernism and Soviet newspeak. The book is directed toward readers of Russian poetry and pan-Jewish poetic traditions, scholars of Soviet culture and history and the burgeoning field of Russian Jewish studies. Finally, it contributes to the general field of poetics and Modernism.

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About the Author

Marat Grinberg (PhD) is an Associate Professor of Russian and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon and a co-editor of the forthcoming Woody on Rye: Reexamining Jewishness in Woody Allen’s Films and Plays after 1992 (Brandeis University Press). He has published numerous articles on literature, film and modern Jewish culture and politics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1934843733
• ISBN 13: 9781934843734
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 486